Comments on: Show # 252 – December 11, 2011http://www.wdwradio.com/2011/12/disney-world-marathon-show-252-december-11-2011/
Disney podcast, Disney expert, Disney news, Disney World vacation planning, Disney trivia, Disney World Trivia, Disney World history, Disney World videos, Disney gamesTue, 03 Mar 2015 18:19:36 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: WDW Radio Dream Team "Coach" Happyhttp://www.wdwradio.com/2011/12/disney-world-marathon-show-252-december-11-2011/#comment-22458
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:37:45 +0000http://www.wdwradio.com/?p=13605#comment-22458Thanks so much, Lou, for allowing me to be on the Show and to “Coach” the Dream Team! So far, I have received several questions, but I’d like more!

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Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:25:51 +0000http://www.wdwradio.com/?p=13605#comment-21488I ran the 2005 WDW Marathon (please don’t look up my time) for Team in Training. And frankly, whose the “endurance athlete”? The person that finishes in 2 hours and 20 minutes or the guy who runs for over FIVE HOURS!?! In any event, I had a great time, met lots of nice people and got to see a different side of the Parks.

Now . . . fast forward to the Monday after Thanksgiving 2010 . . . my mother receives an email that begins; “I hope you are sitting down – this is either the letter you’ve been waiting for or dreading for the past 43 years. . . .” Turns out my parents had a child while in high school that they gave up for adoption. My parents stayed together, got married (still going) and had three more kids (me and two younger sisters). So, we meet the “new sister” (my son says “Dad, she’s hardly ‘new’ she’s like 40-something years old!”) last Christmas and in the process of getting to know one another she announced that she is a “huge Disney fan.” So we went back and forth trying to one-up each other on Disney-fandom, when I threw out my trump card – I ran the 2005 WDW Marathon. She was very impressed and said that she had always wanted to run a Disney race.

So that night (December 2010) she and I agreed that we would run the 2012 WDW Half Marathon together.

The day registration opened I got an email from my two younger sisters – they had signed up as well!

All four of us are traveling to Disney (no spouses, no kids) to run as siblings. If you’re down there – please cheer – I’m going to need it! We’ll be in bright colors with matching t-shirts that read “It all runs in the family”